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Regulation, culture and price measures and their impact on the demand for alcohol
Táboříková, Helena ; Vostrovská, Zdenka (advisor) ; Gráf, Václav (referee)
My thesis is aiming to answer the question what are the impacts of alcohol regulative legislation (especially the excise tax) on demand for it. The theoretical part presents various opinions and conclusions regarding the regulatory measures (apart from others Stigler, 1975) and the impact of alcohol price change on the demand for it (Becker, 1988 and his successors). Further on, individual regulatory measures, their development in time and basic reasoning for introducing of the measures are introduced in the work. In its analytical part, the thesis deals with comparison of states with different alcohol consumption levels and with different regulatory measures in effect; the work thus divides the EU-countries to groups of different traditions and level of control (the Global Alcohol Policy Report by WHO is used as a source of information in this regard). The data available for the selected countries are then subject to research regarding statistical relevance of the excise tax - consumption relation. The paper thus answers a question of alcohol demand elasticity and also the question of the differences in the consumption attributes in various cultural and regulatory conditions. As a source of the relevant information, analytical parts of OECD, WHO and CSU (Czech Statistical Office) databases are used in the paper.
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Analysis of demographic trends and their impact on labour market
Táboříková, Helena ; Dočkal, Dalibor (advisor) ; Nohál, Martin (referee)
Abstract The work deals with aging of population and its effect on the labour market. At the beginning of my work I focus on the basic demographic indicators, these are fertility, mortality and migration of the population. By an analysis of these indicators it is possible to come to important knowledge of future demographic development. It turns out to be true, that reproductive behavior in the Czech republic as well as in the other European countries changes. That has among others strong effect upon the labour market, because the number of younger employees decreases while the number of older ones increases. And on the economic activity of older people (and its support) I focus in the merits of my work. I also briefly describe the basic national and international policies on the field of population aging. These documents set forth basic aims and orientation, which should the economic policies of the states follow. These documents also identify the main problematic areas on which I focus at the end of my work.
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